Daniel Ruggles

Daniel Ruggles

Daniel Ruggles (b. January 31 1810, Barre, Massachusetts – d. June 1 1897, Fredericksburg, Virginia) was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He commanded a division at the Battle of Shiloh.

Ruggles was an 1833 graduate of the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, and served in the U.S. Army during the Second Seminole War and the Mexican-American War, and then served at a variety of garrisons and outposts.

With the outbreak of the Civil War, Ruggles resigned his commission in the U.S. Army in May 1861 and enlisted in the Confederate Army not long afterwards.

In August 1861, he was promoted to brigadier general and assigned command of the 1st Division of the II Corps in the Army of Mississippi. For the rest of the war, he performed mostly administrative duties, and was named as the head of the prison system in 1865. He oversaw the final exchange of Union prisoners of war at the end of the conflict.

After the war, Ruggles was a real estate agent and a farmer in Virginia. He later served as a member of the West Point Board of Visitors.

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